Zodiacs toy shop
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kierentc
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MissG wrote: My other favourite shop as a child was the k's shoe shop with the childrens section upstairs, it was kitted out like space with blue velvetty carpet on the walls, and a climbing frame.And while i'm on with this, I also loved the wooden snake in the bond street centre. Loads of fun. another childhood favourite was the pet shop in the grand arcade pet shop that always had kittens or puppies or bunnies in the window although on reflection it was perhaps a bit cruel...
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simonm
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Aye Brandy. Silly putty was full of useless ways of using it. Take a photo off newspaper, use it as an eraser, roll it into a ball and it became a bouncy ball. I always remembr it, well mine did, came in a star treck type of canister. So even If I had my fill of the putty I used to use the container as a star trek communicator.
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Treadstone71
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Remember Zodiacs being at the bottom of either Thorntons or Queens arcade, most likley Thorntons, as it was near the top end of Briggate. On the opposite side of the arcade i think was Target Sports who also had the bit over the arcade as well. Can remember Zodiacs had a kids entrance as well through some kind of circular hole in the wall fronting onto Briggate, at left hand side of frontage.
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BLAKEY
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LS1 wrote: I'm sure it has been mentioned but if you go down the back of Harvey Nic's through Cross Arcade you can see the old "Empire Palace" carved in the stone at the top of the back/staff entrance I think it may have been me who mentioned it actually - I often look at it to this day, and think of the happy days of the Empire. I try to forget the obscene way in which the old theatre, one of the famous "Moss's Empires", was demolished. It was just crudely torn to pieces at the front on Briggate, so that the entire wrecked auditorium and stage could be seen by everyone - Briggate was awash with tears !!
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ricky
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